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My dog (Scooby) is dead. I think was food poisoning. He was healty. The past few weeks alot of food was recalled by the company that makes almost all the various brands of dog food, apparently from some rat poison contamination. Past few days he's been pissing like a race horse, and whining for seemingly no reason. Last night he threw up alot and could barely walk when I took him outside for a walk, and struggled to go up two stairs. We were gonna take him to the vet today, but when I woke up this morning I found him dead. He was one of the few things I looked forward to everyday. I really don't know what I am going to do. Right now I wished I didn't exist.

EDIT: Though an autopsy hasn't been performed on Scooby's body yet, we are more or less certain it was poisoning. This is confirmed by the fact that he had basically all the symptoms of poisoning, and the cans of food that we have match the product and plant codes of recalled brands. He ate a whole a case of the fucking shit.

So much of my life involved Scooby... I keep imagining the little routines that we had throughout the day or the little things that he would do that I enjoyed, his facial expressions, his times of excitement, and the noises he would make such as snorting and sneezing when he got really exciting about going outside or getting some snacks.

Fuck... I am so pissed about it all.

I have long since known that corporations involved in pet food manufacturing were fucked up yet I have done nothing to apply that knowledge to change his diet and now he has suffered for it.

If any of you have pets and feed them any of the major brands (or really any corporate brands at all) moniter their behavior, and look for signs of poisoning (lethargy, appetite and thirst change, vomitting, excessive whining, excessive urination), check the recall lists, and go to the vet as soon as possible if you notice something out of the ordinary.

Inaction kills.

EDIT 2: So much for "more or less certain". He had liver cancer, and one of the many tumors in his liver erupted which was the cause of death. What caused the liver cancer? I'll never know.

EDIT 3: I have recently discovered that last year researchers at Cornell found that alftoxin, a fungal contaminant, had got into some food and was causing liver failure and other problems in pets, with the potential of long term liver cancer. I'm going to try and contact there someone who worked on that research. We still have cans of unopened food and a refrigerated corpse.